Southern Pines Pay 



Paying Business for Farmers 



HPWO FARMERS in the southern Coastal Plain section of Georgia 

 •*- make good money by growing timber crops. Each was "land poor" 

 with worn-out, idle sandy land. Each began planting pine seedlings 

 to make his land work and now both have young stands of forest trees 

 ranging from 30 to 40 feet in height and 6 to 9 inches in breast-high 

 diameter. 



Part of the 72 acres of poor land set in pine seedlings in the summer and fall of 1927 after 

 the oat crop was harvested, and in the spring of 1928 by a young farmer. The seedlings 

 were spaced 10 x 10 feet apart, or 436 per acre. Fire was excluded from this typical flat- 

 woods land. When the trees were 9 and 10 years old, in the winter of 1935-36, the owner 

 was offered $4,200 for the timber and the land and 4 years later (1939) he was offered 

 $6,000. The latter figure, counting the land at $15 an acre or $1,080 for the tract, shows an 

 increased value of nearly $70 per acre. The trees thus had made about $5.60 an acre a year. 



